350k hits per day is only 4 req/s. Assuming there are typical peak hours, I'm guessing it could reach 300 req/s during peak hours. Nginx on a crappy 128MB ser

350k hits per day is only 4 req/s. Assuming there are typical peak hours, I'm guessing it could reach 300 req/s during peak hours. Nginx on a crappy 128MB server can deliver around 8000 req/s on a static page. Even if there was zero caching, I would hope you could manage 300 req/s. (and yes, I actually tested this on a crappy 128MB VPS. I also tested out using a rails, merb, and compojure generated pages and was able to reach 500-1000 req/s easily)